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Author Archives: Ellen Ross
White Water
Some close friends of mine were on their way to a summer getaway in Aspen recently. They’d been there before and didn’t need any advice from me when it came to finding nifty things to do in the Mountain Time … Continue reading
Brooklyn
Author’s Note: The following post contains some intimate ladies’ health details. If you are not a board-certified gynecologist, please skip it. In 1991 I had a ski accident on Snowmass Mountain. And after a long, shame-making sled trip down the … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
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A Fox (Ahem) Who Hates Lox
Photo by Joe Tighe To all my regular readers of Letter From Elba, it probably comes as no news bulletin that I am currently single. (Although one new reader just offered me his sincerest congratulations on my recent Adirondack nuptials. … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, pop culture
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Post
I am posting this post post Post. Nope, that’s not a misprint. But in case you don’t speak Ojibwan, I’ll translate. I just got back from seven glorious days spent living it up at Camp Ojibwa- the boys’ summer camp … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, pop culture, Tributes
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Orlando
IMPORTANT LETTER FROM ELBA ANNOUNCEMENT: Now hear this. After a year of writing you twice a week, Ellen Ross is going on vacay. She will return with a brand-new post on Sunday, August 18. (If you get lonesome, you can … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, pop culture
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Sexual Politics
This past Sunday the cover of the New York Times Magazine had the photographs of the twelve candidates running for the office of mayor of New York City. And from amongst the unusual suspects, the unsmiling, unwelcome mug of Anthony … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, pop culture
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The Motherhood of the Traveling Pants
In January of 1991 I had a big skiing disagreement with a very skinny Aspen tree up on Elk Camp on Snowmass Mountain. The tree won. And the ski patrol carted me off in a sled. X rays at Aspen … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, pop culture, Sports
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See Michael Reese Run
Photo by Joe Tighe Hear ye. Hear ye. Consider this the royal easel outside of Buckingham Palace: On Tuesday, July 23, at 4:37 a.m. Her Highness, Ashlee Roffe, was safely delivered of a girl, Delia. The newest princess weighed seven … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, pop culture, Sports
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Smile!
You may have noticed something new about Letter From Elba today. Underneath my signature cartoon of Napoleon setting foot on his island of exile, it’s your very own blogger. And if you click on the “about me” button at … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, Movies, pop culture
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Out of Michigan
Author’s Note: This post is for my cousin, Raymond Saunders. Thanks, Ray, for putting it all together. With all due respect to Isaak Dinesen, my paternal great-grandparents had a farm- in Michigan. It was not a coffee plantation in Kenya- … Continue reading
Posted in History, Memoir, Tributes
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